Currently held by Steaked, the Bob Borc Cup is SWL's mid-year knockout tournament.

HouseKeeping:

Divisional Structure
3 Round Swiss, followed by TOP 8 KO

Cup Commencement
The Cup will commence on the 5th of June. First round is due on the 12th at 10pm SWL time.

Axing
Games will be axed if not played by 10pm SWLtime Monday evenings. Include swladmin into your PM threads to avoid a coin toss!

General
Please be aware that we rely on individual coaches to be active in checking this forum, arranging games against opponents (especially if not on east coast of Australia) and in communicating with Admins. The responsibility is on the coach to enquire, not the Admins to inform.

Drafting and Trial of Blood
The Draft for Season 69 will be held immediately after the first KO round, with the Trial of Blood running from the Semi Finals until the beginning of season 69.

Parking/Unparking
The Bob Borc Cup counts as a normal season for the purposes of Parking/Unparking.

Cup Rules:

Current SWL League Teams Only (including parked teams)

All rounds will be a strict 1 week, no extension, from the Monday Night 10pm SWLtime deadline

For Finals KO - Top 8 tiebreakers will be TD diff followed by Cas diff (ie, no H2H)

Forfeits (if any) will be decided by the Axeman according to PM thread information, or by Coin Toss.

Promotions and Relegations from last season (68) will not be affected and will apply for the next season (69) as usual

The Cup is OPT OUT. If you do not wish to participate, please send a parking PM by 10pm Friday 26/05/17.

Winner earns a spot on the URN team. If Winner is already on the Urn team, the runner up gets the spot.

Winner gets boasting rights as the Bob Borc Cup Champion until the next one is run.

The knockout last time was random, round-by-round king of the hill style, so you don't even get to see who you play in the 2nd round until everyone plays the 1st.

Sure but that time it was all knockout, with nothing objective to base the seeding on, so no better way to do it. Now that there's three rounds of Swiss first there's an opportunity to seed the finals.

I think it would make very little difference. One upside would be that it gives teams at the top something to play for. I'd say it would be more valuable though to arrange the final draw in a way that avoids anyone playing the same team again (until the finals of course) if possible, but that probably requires manual intervention.